President Vladimir Putin’s economic adviser rebuked the central bank on Monday as the rouble slid past 101 per U.S. dollar, blaming its 30% year-to-date slump on loose monetary policy and revealing growing discord among Russia’s monetary authorities.

  • InvertedParallax@lemm.ee
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    2 年前

    I’m an American, we used to look up to the British and we understood why they thought of us as uncultured, unsophisticated backwoods rubes.

    We don’t have that perception anymore… :)

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      2 年前

      Careful now, my tea-philistine-friend, or else I shall taunt you about your orange fellow.

      Ah, who am I kidding, our respective states are just two pigs wallowing in shit.

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        2 年前

        Oh no, I know we’re waving our dangly bits in a large greenhouse with excellent access to a large rock field.

        But like, we had so less far to fall :/